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This is a Congress which
the Constitution says is
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a charge of deciding how to spend money
the president knew he'd lose the vote but
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said earlier it won't matter how do if
you know it's not going to be overturned
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he's not saying if there will be consequences
for the Republicans who voted against
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him solder at the White House U.S.
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Backed forces battling the last remnants
of the Islamic state self declared
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caliphate penetrated deeper into the
terror group's enclave Thursday of
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a good result in the second mass surrender
in almost as many days this is below
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a news. British lawmakers
voted Thursday to seek
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a three month delay in Britain's scheduled
March twenty ninth split from the twenty
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eight nation European Union after
overwhelmingly voting against holding
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a new brigs that referendum
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a piece been Thomas has details I still
write four hundred twelve the newsletter
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too I'm going to so the eyes of it the
eyes of it and with that the House of
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Commons approved prime minister Teresa
Mayes proposal to postpone Britain's
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departure from the European Union until
June thirtieth but only if parliament
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approved her withdrawal of the almost week
British lawmakers have already rejected
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May's divorce deal twice and if it fails
the third time May has warned supporters
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the only option will be to seek
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a longer extension and that she says could
mean Rex it never happens any delay
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would require that unanimous approval
of all twenty seven remaining E.U.
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Member states I'm Ben Thomas the US
military has carried out three air strikes
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against al Shabaab militants and Somalia
and less than a week continuing
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a rapid pace could triple last year's
record setting strike numbers according to
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U.S.
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Africa Command the latest strike killed
three militants near him Mali in the lower
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Juba region on Wednesday
and the strike came
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a day after an airstrike killed two al
Shabaab militants in the vicinity in the
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lower region acting secretary of defense
Pat Shanahan has flatly denied that the
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United States would ask nations that house
U.S. Troops to pay the full cost of U.S.
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Service members deployed on their
territory plus fifty percent more for the
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privilege of American defense last week
media reports said that President Trump was
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considering ramping up financial costs for
wealthy allies like Japan South Korea
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and Germany to house American bases the
report said the allies would be required to
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pay one hundred fifty percent of the basing
cost Boeing announced Thursday it. Is
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suspending deliveries of its seven thirty
seven MAX jets to airlines after nearly
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every country grounded the plane following
Sunday's deadly crash in Ethiopia
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a Boeing spokesman said the company would
continue to build the seven thirty seven
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jets while assessing how the situation would
impact the company's production system
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French aviation experts began analyzing
the so-called black boxes from the
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Ethiopian Airlines jet Thursday aviation
analyst Scott Hamilton says the flying
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public needs to hear more detailed information
before confidence in the Boeing MAX
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aircraft can be restored Sunday's crash
of an Ethiopian seven thirty seven MAX
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eight and just after takeoff killed one
hundred fifty seven people I'm Tommy
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McNeill V.O.A.
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News. Good
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morning Africa Welcome to DAYBREAK Africa
from the Voice of America and James about
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it in Washington today is Friday March
fifteenth and there are some of the stories
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we are covering the President Joyce
Banda has withdrawn her candidacy in
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a made for the first election to enter
into an alliance. Already. Born
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to. Enter the country we. Call our people.
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We if you're right it. Is the spokesman
for the Congress party governorship
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elections in six states in
Nigeria remain inconclusive
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a week after the vote Zimbabwe's government
suspends And the encouraging protests
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colons are cautiously optimistic about
efforts to repatriate the country's stolen
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funds and a family mourns the death of
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a member in the Ethiopian Airlines crash
when I'm an American and when us to.
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My brother was when he came back from
vacation I spoke to him the night before he
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boarded the flight in the W.H.O.
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Almost two and the hours Ebola outbreak in
six months those the response times and
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all knowledge Supposing I will is now
the Day coming up on DAYBREAK Africa.
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Congress Party the biggest opposition group
in the country says it plans to form an
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alliance of former President Joyce Banda
Peoples Party to run up to the upcoming
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made for the first elections formally
withdrew her candidacy on Thursday to endorse
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last. Presidential candidates for the
man I would Congress party but former
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president has been criticized for having
no political loyalty to ideology she held
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talks early this year with vice
presidency. To form an alliance. Is
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a spokesman for them and I will Congress
party indeed we. Discussions with the.
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DOCTOR. And that we speak. Only when
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that conference between. The People's Party
and their own idea is to communicate
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that we. Are going to work together and.
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Realistically what are your chances if you
work together with the president's party
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and his apprentice for the elections
you know Malawians one change.
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One united nation so one of the things
that the but I want to see is that parties
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are coming together. And what we want
to see happening in this country if
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we actually for our people. Are not we
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a divided front we are
fighting in common but with
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a common enemy and we all want to come
forward and that's why we better chances
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ousting this D.B.P.
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Government. But more than some people are
saying the former president cannot be
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trusted cause
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a few weeks back she was in discussion
with France president. To form an alliance
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before the elections she has abandoned
that on land and she is joining your party
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full elections some people she says she
is not trustworthy so why go into an
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alliance with somebody who is not politically
loyal to one party or the other. But
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the few.
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Who do not want to go into what we
know about. The principle that.
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Country. And we know what you did and
we have no doubt whatsoever. What.
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We. Want to Believe. So we're looking
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forward to working with.
You know him. Well
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but there are quite
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a sense now there are divisions within
the rank and file of the M.C.P.
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The biggest opposition party in my long in
that that gives incumbent president. The
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best chance to win reelection because of
the divisions I think it's an open door
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policy. And work with us but.
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We want to. So. Mariza Tali
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is the spokesman for all of them and I
would Congress Party spoke with us Peter
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Clottey from. A week after Nigeria held
governorship election seen twenty nine of
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his thirty six days the Independent
National Electoral Commission has declared
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inconclusive elections in six states by
Adam online tool so called Tool Ben week
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and Karl coalition the votes from Rivers
State has also been suspended due to
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widespread disruption and accusations
of interference by some elements of the
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military wrote to me or you can me is the
chief press secretary to I know Chairman
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. He says
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a combination of factors contributed to
the declaration inconclusive elections in
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the sixty's including the discontinuity
shown of the use of this month called Riga
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of avoid ten and widespread disruption
of the electoral process in many pulling
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areas.
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Where are they going to make with own
elections were in. The area will include.
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Mention. To be election. Because
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according to like I'd like an recollection
the market read extra report.
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Number two. Number three what disruption
of the electorate protests in
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many calling in to the
convention. Next to.
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Not make
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a report and so the election became
conclusive. That. On its own
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it probably an election on sixty
indicators that we brought in
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because election really I was. Willing.
To place what the commission did
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was. An. Hour. To go
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through and find out what happened become
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a to return to and hopefully
probably crown proud because. Of it
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and I'm not rude to me does this mean that
the elections in these six states are
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going to be really organized are you going
to have new elections correct we're
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going to have election in area in the
in about war it may not be the end
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look at government because the situation
may not be affected all the look at the
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great so it is really to look at
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a government. But could be elections but
to the situation you mentioned River
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State is the problem with they commission
on the problem with the two political
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parties many in the P.D.T.
And the. Really M.P.C.
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Is that the problem there in reverse that
it probably would be problem of power now
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when we conduct elections we need. Not be
able to because election or what would
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you got during the period you know we
are on our own from polling really
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a lot. We read every where
there was you know all about.
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How I make less money be
better all you want it. Is
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like you also. Wrote to me or you can me
is the chief press secretary to Nigeria's
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Independent National Electoral Commission
Chairman. He was speaking with me from
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the capital. You're listening to daybreak
Africa and the Voice of America I'm James
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but in Washington today it's Friday March
fifteenth they've recovered the time in
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fourteen minutes past the hour the
Zimbabwe government has suspended
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a non-governmental organization for allegedly
encouraging people to stage public
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protest earlier this year against the
high cost of living mines Volman girl
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district administrator Bray hall they
suspend with immediate effect community
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a tolerance and reconciliation
Development Trust
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a youth organization that promotes democracy
development and human rights issues
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hold this suspended the NGO pending
investigations about the group's registration.
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Gooney is really Zanu P.F.
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Activist he spoke with Gates debate
I'll use him as the Washington I think.
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You got me and I don't and I think he
didn't but I made it to the government.
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And on the.
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Wall.
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To. Get it I would get in
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a lot of property. And they could see.
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You all. Got me going I
think. Because people.
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From. Your own government so
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know who did the way things are happening
in Zimbabwe in. Some kind of bad light on
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the governmental. Level So is this
not a bad move you know. This is
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a new government that
has done little things.
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To different. You know you.
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Want to. Know about me.
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And I. Could be I. Was
not really want to go.
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You know what. One
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hundred.
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Twenty.
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Rulings on
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a piece of activist he spoke with gets to
be of us Zimbabwe service from Washington
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Golan's I express
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a mixed views on whether or not President
Lawrence souls efforts to repatriate
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suspect funds world pay off for the
struggling economy. Understood last
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year to those who bring back billions of
dollars held illegally to foreign bank
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accounts but while the
president has been praised for
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a crackdown on corruption it's not clear
how much if any of the money has come back
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less of a custom
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a role has all from the capital Luanda
losing to his one of thousands of Sheed when
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his impressive them and they
had a license market about
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a half hour drive from downtown London she
Cuba's construction materials business
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has been struggling since the price of oil
and coal its biggest export drop four
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years ago Angola has since face
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a shortage of foreign currency which
has discouraged banks from lending to
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businesses like she was the government of
President Laurent so has been seeking to
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inject money into the country with an amnesty
for those who make Patry and suspect
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fines but she Cooper has doubts that the
program will help at least for businesses
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like her does. This still in monies for
the tycoons who are still in it she
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says but if money really returns it would
be useful if the government Hobbs' more
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business owners with loans to refinance
and develop Lauren So who was elected in
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two thousand and seventeen says the case
of corruption under Angola's former
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president who are those Santo's left big.
Missing from state coffers the former
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president denies any looting injuring his
thirty eight years in power he fell out
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with Lorraine So after the president's
much lauded anti-corruption drive targeted
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members of the songs his family Angola
lawmakers lost Shabak Lorraine's on giving
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amnesty for those who bring illegally
transferred funds back into the country but
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so far there's been no announcements on
return money despite some high profile
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arrests and prosecutions critics
like opposition you need
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a party lawmaker to cost the union
says that raises doubts about the
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anti-corruption drive the thing will be all
week but the collapse of the summit he
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says it seems like this is a
selective struggle it is not
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a Russell fight against corruption since
junior It seems like they are protected
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people in very calculated goals
being pursued he says and
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a fight like this is not efficient the end
goal in central bankers cited billions
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of dollars over the years as having been
eagerly centerboard while tens of billions
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in government funds linked to one goal
is that all companies song all have
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disappeared the rants aside the sciences
daughter who is running so Mongol and
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streamline operations and regulations to
encourage foreign investors lawyer until
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you've been through to is with the watchdog
group associates buyers just decent you
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Democracia he knows it won't be so easy
to eliminate systemic corruption and
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recover stolen funds after
decades of exploitation.
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The process of recovering the
money's not an easy task he says
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a lot of this money was put in financial
as it says when to it or many of which are
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earning interest in foreign banks however
he says the fact that the Angolan Central
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Bank has made no announcement about
how much it has recovered isn't
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a mission that indicates a violation
of the right to inform citizens U.S.
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Officials and choose their praised Lorenzo's
anti-corruption efforts at head of
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a visit at the end of the week by U.S.
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Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan
Sullivan. Will meet with the NGO and
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president to discuss global security
issues he'll also meet with the business
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community to underscore the importance of
expanding economic and trade ties between
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the U.S. And Angola Elizabeth
customary for V.O.A.
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News. The wall Health Organization chief
says the outbreak in the east Democrat the
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Republic of Congo can be brought to an
end in six months if everything goes as
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planned latest figures from the B.R.C.
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Ministry of Health put the number of
Ebola cases at nine hundred twenty seven
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including five hundred eighty four deaths
Lisa Schneider reports from W H A H All
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headquarters in Geneva W.H.O.
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Direct General Ted for us on
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a non-gay brigade acknowledges any of the
challenges that lie ahead could undo the
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gains achieved so far in controlling the
spread of the Ebola virus but he says
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enough progress has been made to believe
the ball outbreak in Congo is North Kivu
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any Turi provinces can be shut down in six
months time he says transmission of the
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a BOLO virus has been stopped and they
need mangina and always in North Kebo
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province it hasn't spread to other parts
of the country and it hasn't spread to
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neighboring countries I think anybody can
argue that this is fact and something
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that we can say is good news and the
second is not only that it's not spreading
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it's actually contracting W.H.O.
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Reports the virus has been contained in
eleven of the twenty eight communities
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affected by Ebola since January it says the
number of new cases reported every week
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has dropped by half from the now average
of fifty cases to twenty five. Lisa
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Schneider reporting from Geneva families
from different parts of the world continue
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to move on the deaths of their
loved ones killed Sunday in
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a crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight
three hundred two thirty four year. All
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Abdulahi Abraham was one of thirty two
Kenyans who perished on day one will be
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bound to flight his family is still coming
to terms with the death of their loved
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ones were reports a few
hours before he boarded
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a ship in Airlines Flight three zero two
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a bit late but he chatted with his sister
I shall i she had not seen her brother
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for close to
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a year and was exaggerated about their
reunion when I'm an American we should
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inquire Needless to feeling of occasions
when they laughed at me so my brother was
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a year ago when he came back from vacation
I spoke to him the night before he
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boarded the flight he said that I should
not tell the extended family that he was
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coming and he wanted it to be a surprise
four days later Manas continued to visit
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a blaze home an aerobic Kibera neighborhood
of delays family is now hoping they can
00:21:45
at least buddied their loved one a blaze
Osman a blight Taliban spoke to V.O.A.
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To talk to the brother told him that even
if that peace can be identified is not
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going to come and so that we can send this
crash was the deadliest accept accident
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in Ethiopian Airlines history the plane
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a boy seventy seven marks eight crashed
just six minutes after takeoff near the
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Ethiopian town of B.
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Show of two killing all one hundred fifty
seven on board five months idea another
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boy incident at the seven marks eight crash
into the Jever sea of Indonesia killing
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one hundred eighty nine mine day Tippett
airlines regional manager uber Goetia
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announced the airline was
grounding its marks a feat
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a move followed by most of the airline in
countries that are on the watch list but
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this does not mean that the incident was
related to his defects on be specific
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but we have taken this as an extra safety
precaution the plane's flight data
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recorder and cockpit voice recorder have
been sent to parties for detailed analysis
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Meanwhile it's open air lines and choose
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a few sixty four. Relatives of the victims
of the crash site is wife and father
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were among them their hopes
of finding a piece of
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a blaze body to body on weight is there
an airline spokesman said that no bodies
00:23:07
were recovered from the crash site it appears
the force of the crash pulverize all
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the bodies as
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a belies family continue to mourn they
hope they will find closure they need we
00:23:18
without his remains were
for VO news narrow be.
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Here or something. Nigeria
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a very good Friday morning to you something
good Friday morning to you James we
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begin the sports with
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a look at these weekend's fixtures in the
cafe Champions League and will battle for
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top sporting group of the CAF
Champions League when they meet at
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a book or rap stadium in Alexandra on
Saturday Egyptian Giants Holly will come into
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the March placed second on the log seven
points and on course to reach the quarter
00:24:04
finals this is despite them falling to
a one nil defeat away to die. Is V.
00:24:10
To Kinshasa last week it was. A lit
cool for the black dolphins in Group
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B. C.
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And Orlando Pirates will battle for
00:24:20
a place in the quarter finals when they
meet at the start to do twenty it's
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a tempering Conakry Guinea and signed up
placed second on the log with seven points
00:24:30
while the South African visitors are third
on six points elsewhere as she's an
00:24:36
unlikely berth in the quarter finals of the
Cup Champions League with the phase the
00:24:41
stars of the stadium in Nigeria on
Saturday come into the much placed food
00:24:48
on the group
00:24:48
a log level of points with second place
where I. Ranked below the moral grounds on
00:24:55
the head to head. Tiebreaker team would
football news Blackstone's head coach
00:24:59
Chrissy appeal has defended he's come up
three to look Leigh based players for the
00:25:04
twenty one thousand African qualifier
against Kenya later this month at P.S.
00:25:09
Twenty four months would include as
articles trio of Feliks Alan Amos Frimpong
00:25:15
quite have been touring all doubleton for
the national team clash at the Akron
00:25:19
National Stadium May I believe in.
00:25:32
Being
00:25:32
a player. If anything he
doesn't. Miss Missed. Elsewhere
00:25:45
Liberian national team coach
so much could do has named
00:25:48
a twenty man squad that would travel to
Kinshasa to take on the Democratic Republic
00:25:53
of Congo in the twenty one thousand African
Cup of Nations crucial encounter coach
00:25:57
could do team released on Thursday's made
of dominant overseas players and if you
00:26:02
look at the best players the new star coach
will also be missing former captain and
00:26:07
stop player an in-law for v
00:26:09
e reports have moved his guts out
angst coach could do what he's
00:26:14
a lection who possibly look like
Well as you mention. Him for and
00:26:21
believe that they really have. Players in
the team and then the rest of the players
00:26:26
are for in these players players and
that's it on DAYBREAK Africa's sports I am
00:26:32
Samson. Geria it's back to you James
in Washington for just as they have
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a good week and we look forward to report
again on Monday morning and that is it
00:26:42
for this Friday March fifteenth edition of
DAYBREAK Africa we thank you for us but
00:26:46
in this winter those who will be out for
the DAYBREAK Africa team producer Nicole
00:26:50
back from reporters Peter Clottey and rakish
truck as well as Post editor something
00:26:55
among all Molly along with all of our
engineers on Jen's body washes away you
00:26:59
a very good weekend. I
00:27:06
want to relax on one board charge and
listen to music time in Africa this
00:27:13
weekend it'll do all that and IMO are.
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Going to their maps I know
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00:28:11
Today is Friday March fifteenth this is
veal ways international edition I'm Lori
00:28:16
London in Washington coming up will
passengers get enough information to feel
00:28:20
confident to fly on Boeing's Max eight
jetliners but they don't tell you why they
00:28:25
say it's safe and that doesn't
mean a sure of the flying public
00:28:30
a strong rebuke from his own party on the
president's national emergency border
00:28:34
wall argument today's vote capped
00:28:37
a week of something the American people
haven't seen enough of in the past two
00:28:41
years both parties the United States
Congress standing up to Donald Trump and
00:28:48
also ahead of the music a Britney Spears
will be on Broadway. Well the U.S.
00:28:54
Congress is formally rejected President
Donald Trump's national emergency
00:28:57
declaration to fund wall construction
on the US Mexico border triggering
00:29:02
a near certain presidential veto the
always Michael Bowman reports from Capitol
00:29:07
Hill where the Senate joined the House of
Representatives and disapproving what has
00:29:11
been
00:29:12
a contentious executive action the A's are
fifty nine the nays are forty one. The
00:29:19
joint resolution is passed it's
Congress's first or rejection of
00:29:24
a national emergency declaration
00:29:26
a declaration President Trump made when he
couldn't get the funding he wanted from
00:29:31
lawmakers for a wall on the southern
border with Mexico this is not
00:29:36
a normal vote it's not a
normal day at issue whether
00:29:40
a president can redirect federal funds for
00:29:43
a border wall that Congress has not
approved the president section comes into
00:29:49
direct conflict with Congress's wording
to determine the appropriation
00:29:56
of. At power vested in
Congress by the framers of our
00:30:02
Constitution and undeterred trama
promised action to defend his emergency
00:30:08
declaration you probably have to veto and
it's not going to be overturned the legal
00:30:14
scholars will say it's totally constitutional
it's very important it's really
00:30:19
a border security vote twelve Senate
Republicans voted for the resolution most
00:30:24
stood with the president the president
is operating within existing law and the
00:30:29
questions on our border is all too real
when hundreds of thousands of foreigners
00:30:35
arrive at the southern border and demand
entry that's not migration that's an
00:30:39
emergency and I threat to our sovereignty
Democrats noted that America's border
00:30:44
deficiencies have been debated for years
arguing the situation is far from
00:30:49
a national emergency and that Trump
is exceeding his authority by defying
00:30:54
Congress's will he declared an emergency
because he lost in Congress and wants to
00:30:59
get around he's obsessed with showing
strength and he couldn't just abandon his
00:31:05
pursuit of the border wall so he had to
trample on the constitution although
00:31:10
Congress has not funded trumps border wall
requests earlier this year lawmakers did
00:31:16
provide limited funds to erect new fencing
or. Long small sections of the US Mexico
00:31:21
border and outlay the president deemed
inadequate Congress is unlikely to override
00:31:27
a presidential veto boosting the likelihood
that federal courts will decide the
00:31:32
fate of the national emergency declaration
Michael Bowman News the Capitol it's
00:31:39
been
00:31:39
a week or busy week for the special counsel's
probe into Russia's interference into
00:31:43
the two thousand and sixteen presidential
election and whether the Trump campaign
00:31:47
was in any way involved but there are signs
that the investigation could be coming
00:31:51
to
00:31:52
a close earlier I talked about it Robert
diet's professor of governmental affairs at
00:31:56
George Mason University in the state of
Virginia thank you for being with us so
00:32:01
before we talk about the end game former
Trump campaign chair Paul man afore it was
00:32:06
sentenced to more jail time this week and
then within hours of that sentence he was
00:32:10
indicted on more charges from the New York
attorney general given the timing do you
00:32:15
think that was intentional it's often
challenging to figure out what is priming and
00:32:20
what is coincidence I had the
same thought that it was
00:32:23
a remarkable coincidence that moer
gets a second sons and within
00:32:26
a day the attorney general New York announces
the first Cyrus Vance Jr in politics
00:32:32
kind of
00:32:32
a right kind of runs in the family so he
certainly self-aware of the political
00:32:36
context I think it may have been deliberate
in the sense of let's remind the
00:32:40
American people that the reach of the
president in pardoning is limited to federal
00:32:45
crimes of federal crimes
only and it turns out that
00:32:48
a substantial number
of federal crimes have
00:32:51
a state crime counterpart and if Vance is
prosecution is successful there's nothing
00:32:57
that the president can do in terms of
pardoning and of course we know now that the
00:33:02
president's former advisor Roger Stone
00:33:04
a court date was set for him on Thursday
and the Deputy Special Counsel for Robert
00:33:11
Mueller Andrew Weissman is expected to
leave office soon earlier this month
00:33:15
a senior F.B.I.
00:33:16
Agent overseeing the law enforcement agent.
She's worked for the Miller team took
00:33:21
up a new post so definitely It's
slimming down would that be
00:33:25
a sign that in fact it's getting closer
and closer to being finished I guess it's
00:33:30
fair enough to say it there's
00:33:31
a sign that it's moving toward the end but
of course something moves toward the end
00:33:35
from the day it begins I'm still not
clear about about the timing it is not
00:33:40
surprising that people have
worked very very hard for
00:33:44
a couple of years at this stage you know
if the end is in sight or they feel that
00:33:49
the stuff they've been working on is
00:33:51
a satisfactory place for them to leave
to take on a new job perhaps to take
00:33:57
a month long vacation to get reacquainted
with their families so I don't think that
00:34:01
that that it's
00:34:02
a sponsor yet I'll believe that this is
over when Mr Moeller comes out and says
00:34:07
here's my report also we had the U.S.
00:34:10
House of Representatives vote unanimously
to make the Moller findings public of
00:34:16
course that was blocked by the Republican
controlled Senate but it just goes to
00:34:21
show the interest in the result here which
is kind of interesting despite the fact
00:34:25
that the Congress would not vote to protect
the mall or pro but now they want to
00:34:30
know what's in it how likely is it as
00:34:32
a public will ever really find out what
there is and what it says and what it found
00:34:37
I think the odds of it finding out what's
in everything that's in the report the
00:34:42
odds approach zero it is certainly possible
that investigative reporter is speaking
00:34:48
to anonymous sources will be able to piece
together much of it but these kinds of
00:34:52
inquiries unless somebody is indicted these
types of inquiries are generally kept
00:34:57
secret because it's really unfair to
trash somebody a report or for example
00:35:02
a grand jury report to trash somebody and
then not indict him or her and that's
00:35:09
been
00:35:09
a long tradition in grand juries you either
and dight or you say nothing and I think
00:35:13
that that sort of tradition would applied
to an outside investigation of such as
00:35:18
the one in this. Mo has been conducting
And so I don't think it matters how hill
00:35:22
that's on any of these things Department
of Justice will be governed by the law and
00:35:27
its own rules after so much time public
I know is really hoping at least to get
00:35:34
some sort of
00:35:34
a resolution from all of this do you
think that they will be satisfied or
00:35:38
ultimately because he's farming out so many
of the issues that he's finding in his
00:35:43
scope is limited that many of the answers
just won't be available you know I look I
00:35:48
think in the end we won't know
everything but I think we'll know
00:35:52
a lot and people like you and other
investigative reporters will talk to an
00:35:58
anonymous sources and probably get more
information but at the end of the day I
00:36:04
don't think we will ever sort of know
everything will the question of whether or
00:36:08
not the Trump campaign colluded with
Russia will we know the answer to that
00:36:14
question well again as I've mentioned
in prior programs cool Luzhin is not
00:36:18
a crime if the question is will you think
that look like reamed the Trump camp will
00:36:25
there be information of Trump campaigning
was working with individual Russians I
00:36:32
think the answer to that so that's going
to be yes that's Robert diets professor of
00:36:36
governmental affairs at George Mason
University going seven thirty seven MAX eight
00:36:42
and nine planes will be grounded
for weeks if not longer until
00:36:45
a software upgrade can be tested and
installed as officials in France prepare to
00:36:51
begin analyzing the black boxes from
00:36:53
a jet that crashed in Ethiopia Sunday
investigators will be seeking clues into the
00:36:58
deadly Ethiopian Ethiopian Airlines crash
crashed shortly after takeoff from. The
00:37:04
crash killed one hundred fifty seven
people from thirty five nations it was the
00:37:09
second such calamity involving that model
of Boeing planes since October the United
00:37:15
States was the last of dozens of nations
to ground the planes. Aviation analyst
00:37:20
Scott Hamilton says the US Federal Aviation
Administration trailed other global
00:37:25
aviation agencies in reacting to
the disaster Monday the C.E.O.
00:37:31
Of Ethiopian Airlines said flat out the
pilot had flight control issues at that
00:37:37
point I believe the F.A.A.
00:37:39
Should have acted it would
00:37:40
a bit about the middle of the pack so
the speak at that stage possible links
00:37:45
between the accidents of Rock the aviation
industry scared passengers and left the
00:37:50
world's biggest plane maker
scrambling to prove the safety of
00:37:53
a money spinning model intend to be the
standard for decades Multan says the flying
00:37:59
public needs to hear more detail information
before confident the Boeing MAX
00:38:04
aircraft can be restored united the pilots
Southwest pilots American pilot said
00:38:09
they're playing
00:38:10
a safe but they don't tell you why they
say it's safe and that doesn't really
00:38:14
reassure the fan public Boeing says it has
paused deliveries of its vast to selling
00:38:20
seven thirty seven MAX aircraft built at
its factory near Seattle but continues to
00:38:25
produce its single aisle jets at full
speed while dealing with worldwide fleets
00:38:29
grounding former Texas congressman better
zero zero Rorke is the latest entrant
00:38:35
into the crowded Democratic presidential
field O'Rorke was little known nationally
00:38:40
before he nearly upset Republican Ted Cruz
last November and now hopes to ride that
00:38:45
rapid rise to fame all the way to the White
House in two thousand and twenty the
00:38:49
away national correspondent Jim alone has
more from Washington I'm running to serve
00:38:55
you as president of the United States of
America after months of intensive patient
00:38:59
former Texas congressman right there to
award launched his presidential campaign in
00:39:05
the early voting state of Iowa and with
online video we are truly no more than ever
00:39:11
the last great hope of earth at this moment
of maximum peril and maximum potential
00:39:18
but show. Ourselves and those who will
succeed us in this great country just who we
00:39:23
are and what we can do at forty six homework
brings youthful exuberance and fund
00:39:29
raising prowess to what is already
00:39:31
a jam packed and diverse Democratic
presidential field the former congressman came
00:39:36
to national attention last year after he
nearly defeated Texas Republican Senator
00:39:42
Ted Cruz in
00:39:44
a campaign that inspired Democrats well
beyond the borders of that conservative
00:39:49
state we're not going to find ourselves
by who or what we're against or afraid of
00:39:55
or scared of at the White House President
Donald Trump said he was ready to take on
00:40:01
a Democratic nominee
next year whether it is
00:40:04
a war or someone else that nothing so much
can move ahead I said Is he crazy or is
00:40:10
it just the way he acts so I think it's
going to be tough for somebody but you know
00:40:13
what whoever it is it makes no difference
to me whatsoever Award No joins
00:40:18
a varied group of candidates
that also reflects
00:40:21
a range of policy views from centrists to
ultra liberal says analyst John who Jack
00:40:27
I think we're going to see a lively
debate of ideas and issues in
00:40:32
a way that we didn't see out much
in two thousand and sixteen and in
00:40:35
a way we're certainly not going to see
on the Republican side favors universal
00:40:40
health care coverage images and fighting
climate change he also brings passion to
00:40:46
the race you'll have to contend with
established candidates who do as well like
00:40:51
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren
Clinton government works great for those
00:40:58
with money and power and not for
the rest of the people it is
00:41:04
corruption plain and simple and we need
to call it out former Vice President Joe
00:41:10
Biden strongly hinted this week that he
will join the race soon and he could
00:41:15
quickly become the front runner but some
Democrats may be looking for. A political
00:41:20
outsider to take on trumps next year
says Will Marshall looking to Washington
00:41:26
experience in their present really they're
looking for people going to challenge
00:41:31
a political culture the political
class I think is dysfunctional
00:41:36
a worker who makes several stops on
his Iowa tour and then will hold
00:41:40
a major campaign kickoff in his hometown
of El Paso Texas on March third him alone
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00:42:30
Children whose families fled conflict in
the Democratic Republic of Congo now face
00:42:34
a new fight for survival
UNICEF estimates more than
00:42:38
a quarter million of them
face malnutrition the always
00:42:41
a rush hour Saudi reports that
00:42:43
a civilians return to their homes and
over overburdened local health care that
00:42:49
number is likely to Ross Susan and her
daughter Rosie that fled Congo's Kasai
00:42:54
region to find shelter and keep wheat.
Daughters Ballmer Ishta and I have no money
00:43:00
to feed her you know like thousands of
other civilians who fled conflict in the
00:43:04
P.R.C.
00:43:05
Susan struggled to find food you know she
start to eat sad because she was so hungry
00:43:10
now a belly is swollen I can't buy daughter
medication and no way of treating her
00:43:15
a cut nothing rose at died after the filming
of this video. The ongoing conflict
00:43:22
bred insecurity forcing thousands of families
to flee into the bush but there they
00:43:27
faced food shortages that forced them to
return home in search of lifesaving care
00:43:31
and. We left the bush because of
hunger and suffering when we found
00:43:36
a village to rest and I was told about
this hospital where children could receive
00:43:39
medical care and food for free online
services at this clinic could be the
00:43:43
difference between life and death. And you
know they heard about the care offered
00:43:48
at this hospital this mother came immediately
with her child and after clinical
00:43:53
examinations the child was declared
malnourished the fighting in case I was one of
00:43:58
a series of deadly flare ups following
the former president's refusal to leave
00:44:02
power in twenty sixteen UNICEF and its
partners have treated about two hundred
00:44:06
thousand severely malnourished
children in the D. Or C.
00:44:09
Over the past two years but estimate there
are another two hundred sixty thousand
00:44:14
in need
00:44:15
a rush. And you're listening
to international edition
00:44:23
on V.O.A. . Some two hundred
thousand people in Malawi
00:44:28
a been displaced by floods that have
affected half of the country's twenty eight
00:44:32
districts as of Wednesday the government
had reported at least fifty six deaths and
00:44:37
over five hundred injuries meteorologists
have warned that more rain is on the way
00:44:42
missing are reports from one of the district
most affected by the floods people at
00:44:48
this evacuation account by
00:44:49
a monk to read it if I was in the Malawians
pool of people forced from their homes
00:44:54
by friends that have damaged the roads
washed away bridges and killed love story or
00:45:00
way that expires say this was
00:45:02
a result of the trip because.
Of that to buoy in the from
00:45:05
a neighboring Mozambique victims or
00:45:08
a council they would kill
somebody for meaning but made him
00:45:12
a good mate not while we were fast asleep
and I was awakened by sound of some
00:45:15
unfolding down of the starter I me
Giulio waked up as and found that it was
00:45:19
a wall of our house we found refuge achieves
house until the following morning when
00:45:23
we were told to stay at this camp and there
already more easy House slowed almost
00:45:29
everything he had but he managed to escape
easy to children in need you know so I
00:45:35
knew. We are now expecting well wishes to
provide us with some food some blankets
00:45:42
and also
00:45:42
a range of place in the upper land where
we can resettle. Praised into Peter. Has
00:45:49
a degree had
00:45:49
a foot in Africa the district's disaster
area is at the maid at edge into appeal
00:45:55
for help but the relief ideas that have
started to show you are being helped by the
00:46:00
by odes witchery many probably
would want to think. Of
00:46:06
a department which doesn't of disaster
management affairs. Minister of Homeland
00:46:11
Security to try to help us with the
helicopter so that it should be utterly fair
00:46:16
lifting some of the roof items to become
so that you cannot be accessed by road
00:46:21
maybe while on into if you wake is how busy
ploy in accounts. Traditions I got if I
00:46:26
was people one practices that
helped prevent the outbreaks of
00:46:31
a fictious disease well song. Might or
not oh mercy why no five children not
00:46:38
a good mind
00:46:38
a. Minimal one yeah yeah an infant from
this is how many don't seem enough
00:46:45
lads in the south than in Malawi for years
I killed about two hundred seventy six
00:46:50
people and to displace to two hundred
if they did thousand AD as governmental
00:46:54
authorities say they plan to study relocating
people from flooded porn is to higher
00:47:00
ground the thinking or Doctorow
to do away with. About.
00:47:07
This idiocy does US doesn't like the one
we experienced benighted in this what you
00:47:12
have expressed in marching twenty nineteen
how evil folk warned over another week
00:47:18
of the studio starting from much what.
I did not smile when that rains
00:47:25
how likely it will. See now
for you when you sang Jan And
00:47:32
you're listening to
international edition on V.O.A.
00:47:35
. To twenty nineteen V.O.A.
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Deal with. A new.
00:48:41
National dish and continues by twenty fifty
Australians will no longer enjoy winter
00:48:47
as they know it today in fact winter as
they know it will be nonexistent according
00:48:52
to the results of
00:48:53
a project involving academics and
colleagues from the Australian National
00:48:57
University School of Art and
Design and from the A.N.U.
00:49:00
Climate Change Institute they've developed
an interactive tool to show the impacts
00:49:04
of climate change in
00:49:05
a way that people can engage with and better
understand I talked about it with two
00:49:09
of the professors who worked on this Dr
Geoff Hinchcliffe and Dr Mitchell Whitelaw
00:49:16
the results of climate changes like
this are are very frightening. It is
00:49:21
a I mean it's scary I guess until the
very much strategy that we're using to
00:49:25
communicate is China by when we say no
winter it's not like we're going to remove
00:49:30
you know the winter months of
00:49:31
a year the month will still be here but
the average daily maximum temperature at
00:49:35
that time will be warmer than winters we
have had traditionally and there actually
00:49:40
one be
00:49:40
a period the year which has daily maximum
temperature is that you know that match
00:49:45
historical winter but we mainly say no
winter How will you distinguish your season
00:49:50
and the savings will roll through in the
normal way and of course the week to
00:49:54
period will be colder than the some
00:49:55
a period that we have here
it won't be anything like
00:49:58
a cold of that was in terms of the daily
chances that will lead to lose because
00:50:03
anything can change through the length I
understand that some are calling it new
00:50:08
summer Jessie and and yeah that's what
happened the other end of the year if in the
00:50:14
wind period is mild almost really something
closer to what we currently experience
00:50:20
in spring and also that's happening that
we typically either engage in out from
00:50:25
among we're experiencing
00:50:27
a new Selma something that's really
contracted summer to come through either by
00:50:31
a really intense period and interestingly
in a Strat we need a twenty I'd
00:50:36
a some A because we have some I you know
I know the Christmas period it really
00:50:40
brings them in something like that model
that we saw record breaking all Everest
00:50:45
right on this die hard screening of die it
was really shocking accounts and that's
00:50:50
only thirty years the way that you're
talking about is happening well to some
00:50:53
extent already getting
00:50:55
a preview of it you know what happened in
the summer that just come by it's really
00:50:59
not
00:50:59
a million miles away from what we're showing
in this market and some of them to stop
00:51:04
pretty things to do but it's still going
on where visually by doing enjoying from
00:51:09
very by the guy across months and suddenly
in the midst of summer it was great
00:51:16
for them that he was. A across the months
to astronomy. What will that mean for the
00:51:22
ecology for this Barrier Reef and all of
these other humans that are so prized
00:51:29
there is
00:51:30
a chilling here great question and you
know I guess when designing an ecologist
00:51:36
sort of funded their role in this project
was really to visualize and find ways to
00:51:41
communicate these projections so that we
don't answer the questions we've months
00:51:46
with already except But all of the sons
are shouting pretty loudly at the impact
00:51:51
you know that there is they're going to be
really serious unless we do something in
00:51:55
a study and availability to to really reduce
out how the nation was and take action
00:51:59
really quickly tell me
00:52:00
a little bit about how you came up with
these findings you have an actual climate
00:52:05
tool. Fortunately we were able to call
on some dogs being produced by the
00:52:12
Queensland Government to quantify that I
produced really fine grain the prime right
00:52:18
Dr Hall looking at twenty people in modeling
and initially wanted produce that it
00:52:24
was to help grow it isn't people walking
away and to prepare for all the impacts of
00:52:29
climate change you know the whole adaptation.
Necessarily have to stalk me fuck the
00:52:35
climate has got to be changing subjects
that produces the to help prepare them for
00:52:39
those changes. Have any kind of
need to find that out. So we
00:52:46
were able to sort of get the whole doc to
represent or found the locations across
00:52:52
the strata and do
00:52:53
a representation for the holidays and
also allows people to really look at the
00:52:59
effects of climate change so that the
aspect of the work we think it's really
00:53:04
important that we kind of show people what
I mean in their world if people want to
00:53:09
look at this and see how it actually works
what can they do beside it currently
00:53:14
live and add that my climate I see
00:53:17
a doc told me to. All
right we thank you for
00:53:22
a hall that information and interesting
commentary Dr Jeff pension and Dr
00:53:28
Mitchell white law professors at the
Australian National University.
00:53:41
A Britney Spears themed musical
is coming to bright lights
00:53:45
a Broadway production called Once
Upon A one more time will be
00:53:51
a comedy based on
00:53:52
a book club made up of fairy tale princesses
and will feature many of the Princess
00:53:58
of Pop's biggest hits debuts in Chicago
later this year with plans for
00:54:04
a New York and Broadway
show by twenty twenty.
00:54:21
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00:54:32
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00:54:36
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Eleven. Eleven.
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I've.
00:57:36
This is the way news I'm Tommy make me
authorities New Zealand are not certain how
00:57:41
many people might be involved in attacks
against Muslim worshippers and are warning
00:57:45
residents to avoid going to mosque anywhere
in the country and maybe correspondent
00:57:50
Jackie Quinn reports New Zealand's prime
minister just into our durned says there
00:57:54
was carnage at two mosques in Christ Church
this is one of New Zealand's Doc asked
00:58:00
day she says many of the victims appear
to be migrants seeking safety in the
00:58:05
country they are us the person who has
picture I did this violence against us is
00:58:12
not this witness at one of the mosques
that was attacked says there was blood
00:58:17
everywhere fighting the board over
00:58:18
a blaze and it's gotten out of business
witnesses say they heard dozens of shots
00:58:23
and then people screaming as they ran out
in terror residents were helping victims
00:58:27
in the street as they waited for emergency
responders to arrive I'm Jackie Quinn
00:58:33
the U.S. Senate voted to reject U.S.
00:58:35
President Donald Trump's national
emergency declaration to fund border wall
00:58:40
construction as a piece Saager Magali
reports twelve Senate Republicans ignored
00:58:46
a presidential veto threat and joined
00:58:48
a unified Democratic Caucus to pass the
disapproval measure and the Republican led
00:58:53
chamber there were references to high school
civics class and Schoolhouse Rock for
00:58:59
me this is
00:59:00
a constitutional question Congress not
the president has the sole Thora to
00:59:04
determine how to spend taxpayer money
this check on the executive is
00:59:08
a source of our freedom Mitt Romney Rob
Portman and Lamar Alexander of all the
00:59:13
dozen Republicans voting to block the
president's move the legal scholars will say
00:59:17
it's totally constitutional he's promising
00:59:20
a veto and it's nearly certain there
will not be enough votes for an override
00:59:25
solder at the White House signed more
at a news dot com This is V.O.A.
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News. Hundreds of people
surrendered to U.S.
00:59:35
Backed forces for the second day in
00:59:37
a row as the last remnants of the Islamic
state group fought to hold in the Syrian
00:59:42
village of booze officials say that Thirteen
hundred people surrendered to serous
00:59:47
Syria democratic forces bringing the total
number of people to leave boggles since
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the S.D.F.
00:59:53
Resumed its final assault to more than
four thousand acting defense secretary
00:59:58
Patrick Shanahan told
01:00:00
a US Senate Armed Services Committee that
the fight is almost over seventy nine
01:00:04
member defeat ISIS coalition has liberated
virtually all of the territory ISIS once
01:00:10
held as the U.S.
01:00:11
Drawdown continues we will maintain
01:00:13
a presence to prevent ISIS resurgence
fighting on the outskirts of the goons has
01:00:18
been intense with.
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This is a Congress which
the Constitution says is
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a charge of deciding how to spend money
the president knew he'd lose the vote but
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said earlier it won't matter how do if
you know it's not going to be overturned
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he's not saying if there will be consequences
for the Republicans who voted against
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him solder at the White House U.S.
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Backed forces battling the last remnants
of the Islamic state self declared
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caliphate penetrated deeper into the
terror group's enclave Thursday of
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a good result in the second mass surrender
in almost as many days this is below
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a news. British lawmakers
voted Thursday to seek
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a three month delay in Britain's scheduled
March twenty ninth split from the twenty
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eight nation European Union after
overwhelmingly voting against holding
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a new brigs that referendum
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a piece been Thomas has details I still
write four hundred twelve the newsletter
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too I'm going to so the eyes of it the
eyes of it and with that the House of
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Commons approved prime minister Teresa
Mayes proposal to postpone Britain's
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departure from the European Union until
June thirtieth but only if parliament
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approved her withdrawal of the almost week
British lawmakers have already rejected
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May's divorce deal twice and if it fails
the third time May has warned supporters
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the only option will be to seek
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a longer extension and that she says could
mean Rex it never happens any delay
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would require that unanimous approval
of all twenty seven remaining E.U.
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Member states I'm Ben Thomas the US
military has carried out three air strikes
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against al Shabaab militants and Somalia
and less than a week continuing
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a rapid pace could triple last year's
record setting strike numbers according to
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U.S.
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Africa Command the latest strike killed
three militants near him Mali in the lower
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Juba region on Wednesday
and the strike came
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a day after an airstrike killed two al
Shabaab militants in the vicinity in the
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lower region acting secretary of defense
Pat Shanahan has flatly denied that the
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United States would ask nations that house
U.S. Troops to pay the full cost of U.S.
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Service members deployed on their
territory plus fifty percent more for the
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privilege of American defense last week
media reports said that President Trump was
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considering ramping up financial costs for
wealthy allies like Japan South Korea
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and Germany to house American bases the
report said the allies would be required to
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pay one hundred fifty percent of the basing
cost Boeing announced Thursday it. Is
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suspending deliveries of its seven thirty
seven MAX jets to airlines after nearly
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every country grounded the plane following
Sunday's deadly crash in Ethiopia
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a Boeing spokesman said the company would
continue to build the seven thirty seven
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jets while assessing how the situation would
impact the company's production system
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French aviation experts began analyzing
the so-called black boxes from the
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Ethiopian Airlines jet Thursday aviation
analyst Scott Hamilton says the flying
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public needs to hear more detailed information
before confidence in the Boeing MAX
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aircraft can be restored Sunday's crash
of an Ethiopian seven thirty seven MAX
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eight and just after takeoff killed one
hundred fifty seven people I'm Tommy
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McNeill V.O.A.
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News. Good
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morning Africa Welcome to DAYBREAK Africa
from the Voice of America and James about
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it in Washington today is Friday March
fifteenth and there are some of the stories
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we are covering the President Joyce
Banda has withdrawn her candidacy in
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a made for the first election to enter
into an alliance. Already. Born
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to. Enter the country we. Call our people.
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We if you're right it. Is the spokesman
for the Congress party governorship
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elections in six states in
Nigeria remain inconclusive
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a week after the vote Zimbabwe's government
suspends And the encouraging protests
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colons are cautiously optimistic about
efforts to repatriate the country's stolen
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funds and a family mourns the death of
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a member in the Ethiopian Airlines crash
when I'm an American and when us to.
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My brother was when he came back from
vacation I spoke to him the night before he
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boarded the flight in the W.H.O.
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Almost two and the hours Ebola outbreak in
six months those the response times and
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all knowledge Supposing I will is now
the Day coming up on DAYBREAK Africa.
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Congress Party the biggest opposition group
in the country says it plans to form an
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alliance of former President Joyce Banda
Peoples Party to run up to the upcoming
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made for the first elections formally
withdrew her candidacy on Thursday to endorse
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last. Presidential candidates for the
man I would Congress party but former
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president has been criticized for having
no political loyalty to ideology she held
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talks early this year with vice
presidency. To form an alliance. Is
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a spokesman for them and I will Congress
party indeed we. Discussions with the.
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DOCTOR. And that we speak. Only when
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that conference between. The People's Party
and their own idea is to communicate
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that we. Are going to work together and.
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Realistically what are your chances if you
work together with the president's party
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and his apprentice for the elections
you know Malawians one change.
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One united nation so one of the things
that the but I want to see is that parties
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are coming together. And what we want
to see happening in this country if
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we actually for our people. Are not we
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a divided front we are
fighting in common but with
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a common enemy and we all want to come
forward and that's why we better chances
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ousting this D.B.P.
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Government. But more than some people are
saying the former president cannot be
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trusted cause
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a few weeks back she was in discussion
with France president. To form an alliance
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before the elections she has abandoned
that on land and she is joining your party
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full elections some people she says she
is not trustworthy so why go into an
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alliance with somebody who is not politically
loyal to one party or the other. But
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the few.
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Who do not want to go into what we
know about. The principle that.
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Country. And we know what you did and
we have no doubt whatsoever. What.
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We. Want to Believe. So we're looking
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forward to working with.
You know him. Well
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but there are quite
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a sense now there are divisions within
the rank and file of the M.C.P.
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The biggest opposition party in my long in
that that gives incumbent president. The
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best chance to win reelection because of
the divisions I think it's an open door
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policy. And work with us but.
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We want to. So. Mariza Tali
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is the spokesman for all of them and I
would Congress Party spoke with us Peter
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Clottey from. A week after Nigeria held
governorship election seen twenty nine of
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his thirty six days the Independent
National Electoral Commission has declared
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inconclusive elections in six states by
Adam online tool so called Tool Ben week
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and Karl coalition the votes from Rivers
State has also been suspended due to
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widespread disruption and accusations
of interference by some elements of the
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military wrote to me or you can me is the
chief press secretary to I know Chairman
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. He says
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a combination of factors contributed to
the declaration inconclusive elections in
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the sixty's including the discontinuity
shown of the use of this month called Riga
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of avoid ten and widespread disruption
of the electoral process in many pulling
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areas.
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Where are they going to make with own
elections were in. The area will include.
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Mention. To be election. Because
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according to like I'd like an recollection
the market read extra report.
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Number two. Number three what disruption
of the electorate protests in
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many calling in to the
convention. Next to.
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Not make
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a report and so the election became
conclusive. That. On its own
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it probably an election on sixty
indicators that we brought in
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because election really I was. Willing.
To place what the commission did
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was. An. Hour. To go
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through and find out what happened become
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a to return to and hopefully
probably crown proud because. Of it
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and I'm not rude to me does this mean that
the elections in these six states are
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going to be really organized are you going
to have new elections correct we're
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going to have election in area in the
in about war it may not be the end
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look at government because the situation
may not be affected all the look at the
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great so it is really to look at
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a government. But could be elections but
to the situation you mentioned River
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State is the problem with they commission
on the problem with the two political
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parties many in the P.D.T.
And the. Really M.P.C.
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Is that the problem there in reverse that
it probably would be problem of power now
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when we conduct elections we need. Not be
able to because election or what would
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you got during the period you know we
are on our own from polling really
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a lot. We read every where
there was you know all about.
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How I make less money be
better all you want it. Is
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like you also. Wrote to me or you can me
is the chief press secretary to Nigeria's
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Independent National Electoral Commission
Chairman. He was speaking with me from
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the capital. You're listening to daybreak
Africa and the Voice of America I'm James
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but in Washington today it's Friday March
fifteenth they've recovered the time in
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fourteen minutes past the hour the
Zimbabwe government has suspended
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a non-governmental organization for allegedly
encouraging people to stage public
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protest earlier this year against the
high cost of living mines Volman girl
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district administrator Bray hall they
suspend with immediate effect community
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a tolerance and reconciliation
Development Trust
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a youth organization that promotes democracy
development and human rights issues
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hold this suspended the NGO pending
investigations about the group's registration.
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Gooney is really Zanu P.F.
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Activist he spoke with Gates debate
I'll use him as the Washington I think.
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You got me and I don't and I think he
didn't but I made it to the government.
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And on the.
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Wall.
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To. Get it I would get in
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a lot of property. And they could see.
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You all. Got me going I
think. Because people.
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From. Your own government so
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know who did the way things are happening
in Zimbabwe in. Some kind of bad light on
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the governmental. Level So is this
not a bad move you know. This is
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a new government that
has done little things.
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To different. You know you.
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Want to. Know about me.
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And I. Could be I. Was
not really want to go.
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You know what. One
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hundred.
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Twenty.
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Rulings on
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a piece of activist he spoke with gets to
be of us Zimbabwe service from Washington
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Golan's I express
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a mixed views on whether or not President
Lawrence souls efforts to repatriate
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suspect funds world pay off for the
struggling economy. Understood last
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year to those who bring back billions of
dollars held illegally to foreign bank
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accounts but while the
president has been praised for
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a crackdown on corruption it's not clear
how much if any of the money has come back
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less of a custom
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a role has all from the capital Luanda
losing to his one of thousands of Sheed when
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his impressive them and they
had a license market about
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a half hour drive from downtown London she
Cuba's construction materials business
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has been struggling since the price of oil
and coal its biggest export drop four
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years ago Angola has since face
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a shortage of foreign currency which
has discouraged banks from lending to
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businesses like she was the government of
President Laurent so has been seeking to
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inject money into the country with an amnesty
for those who make Patry and suspect
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fines but she Cooper has doubts that the
program will help at least for businesses
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like her does. This still in monies for
the tycoons who are still in it she
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says but if money really returns it would
be useful if the government Hobbs' more
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business owners with loans to refinance
and develop Lauren So who was elected in
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two thousand and seventeen says the case
of corruption under Angola's former
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president who are those Santo's left big.
Missing from state coffers the former
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president denies any looting injuring his
thirty eight years in power he fell out
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with Lorraine So after the president's
much lauded anti-corruption drive targeted
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members of the songs his family Angola
lawmakers lost Shabak Lorraine's on giving
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amnesty for those who bring illegally
transferred funds back into the country but
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so far there's been no announcements on
return money despite some high profile
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arrests and prosecutions critics
like opposition you need
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a party lawmaker to cost the union
says that raises doubts about the
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anti-corruption drive the thing will be all
week but the collapse of the summit he
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says it seems like this is a
selective struggle it is not
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a Russell fight against corruption since
junior It seems like they are protected
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people in very calculated goals
being pursued he says and
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a fight like this is not efficient the end
goal in central bankers cited billions
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of dollars over the years as having been
eagerly centerboard while tens of billions
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in government funds linked to one goal
is that all companies song all have
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disappeared the rants aside the sciences
daughter who is running so Mongol and
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streamline operations and regulations to
encourage foreign investors lawyer until
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you've been through to is with the watchdog
group associates buyers just decent you
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Democracia he knows it won't be so easy
to eliminate systemic corruption and
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recover stolen funds after
decades of exploitation.
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The process of recovering the
money's not an easy task he says
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a lot of this money was put in financial
as it says when to it or many of which are
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earning interest in foreign banks however
he says the fact that the Angolan Central
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Bank has made no announcement about
how much it has recovered isn't
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a mission that indicates a violation
of the right to inform citizens U.S.
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Officials and choose their praised Lorenzo's
anti-corruption efforts at head of
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a visit at the end of the week by U.S.
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Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan
Sullivan. Will meet with the NGO and
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president to discuss global security
issues he'll also meet with the business
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community to underscore the importance of
expanding economic and trade ties between
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the U.S. And Angola Elizabeth
customary for V.O.A.
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News. The wall Health Organization chief
says the outbreak in the east Democrat the
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Republic of Congo can be brought to an
end in six months if everything goes as
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planned latest figures from the B.R.C.
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Ministry of Health put the number of
Ebola cases at nine hundred twenty seven
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including five hundred eighty four deaths
Lisa Schneider reports from W H A H All
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headquarters in Geneva W.H.O.
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Direct General Ted for us on
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a non-gay brigade acknowledges any of the
challenges that lie ahead could undo the
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gains achieved so far in controlling the
spread of the Ebola virus but he says
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enough progress has been made to believe
the ball outbreak in Congo is North Kivu
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any Turi provinces can be shut down in six
months time he says transmission of the
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a BOLO virus has been stopped and they
need mangina and always in North Kebo
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province it hasn't spread to other parts
of the country and it hasn't spread to
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neighboring countries I think anybody can
argue that this is fact and something
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that we can say is good news and the
second is not only that it's not spreading
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it's actually contracting W.H.O.
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Reports the virus has been contained in
eleven of the twenty eight communities
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affected by Ebola since January it says the
number of new cases reported every week
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has dropped by half from the now average
of fifty cases to twenty five. Lisa
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Schneider reporting from Geneva families
from different parts of the world continue
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to move on the deaths of their
loved ones killed Sunday in
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a crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight
three hundred two thirty four year. All
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Abdulahi Abraham was one of thirty two
Kenyans who perished on day one will be
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bound to flight his family is still coming
to terms with the death of their loved
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ones were reports a few
hours before he boarded
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a ship in Airlines Flight three zero two
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a bit late but he chatted with his sister
I shall i she had not seen her brother
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for close to
00:21:17
a year and was exaggerated about their
reunion when I'm an American we should
00:21:22
inquire Needless to feeling of occasions
when they laughed at me so my brother was
00:21:26
a year ago when he came back from vacation
I spoke to him the night before he
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boarded the flight he said that I should
not tell the extended family that he was
00:21:35
coming and he wanted it to be a surprise
four days later Manas continued to visit
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a blaze home an aerobic Kibera neighborhood
of delays family is now hoping they can
00:21:45
at least buddied their loved one a blaze
Osman a blight Taliban spoke to V.O.A.
00:21:51
To talk to the brother told him that even
if that peace can be identified is not
00:21:57
going to come and so that we can send this
crash was the deadliest accept accident
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in Ethiopian Airlines history the plane
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a boy seventy seven marks eight crashed
just six minutes after takeoff near the
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Ethiopian town of B.
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Show of two killing all one hundred fifty
seven on board five months idea another
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boy incident at the seven marks eight crash
into the Jever sea of Indonesia killing
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one hundred eighty nine mine day Tippett
airlines regional manager uber Goetia
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announced the airline was
grounding its marks a feat
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a move followed by most of the airline in
countries that are on the watch list but
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this does not mean that the incident was
related to his defects on be specific
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but we have taken this as an extra safety
precaution the plane's flight data
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recorder and cockpit voice recorder have
been sent to parties for detailed analysis
00:22:52
Meanwhile it's open air lines and choose
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a few sixty four. Relatives of the victims
of the crash site is wife and father
00:22:59
were among them their hopes
of finding a piece of
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a blaze body to body on weight is there
an airline spokesman said that no bodies
00:23:07
were recovered from the crash site it appears
the force of the crash pulverize all
00:23:12
the bodies as
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a belies family continue to mourn they
hope they will find closure they need we
00:23:18
without his remains were
for VO news narrow be.
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Here or something. Nigeria
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a very good Friday morning to you something
good Friday morning to you James we
00:23:41
begin the sports with
00:23:42
a look at these weekend's fixtures in the
cafe Champions League and will battle for
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top sporting group of the CAF
Champions League when they meet at
00:23:52
a book or rap stadium in Alexandra on
Saturday Egyptian Giants Holly will come into
00:23:58
the March placed second on the log seven
points and on course to reach the quarter
00:24:04
finals this is despite them falling to
a one nil defeat away to die. Is V.
00:24:10
To Kinshasa last week it was. A lit
cool for the black dolphins in Group
00:24:17
B. C.
00:24:18
And Orlando Pirates will battle for
00:24:20
a place in the quarter finals when they
meet at the start to do twenty it's
00:24:24
a tempering Conakry Guinea and signed up
placed second on the log with seven points
00:24:30
while the South African visitors are third
on six points elsewhere as she's an
00:24:36
unlikely berth in the quarter finals of the
Cup Champions League with the phase the
00:24:41
stars of the stadium in Nigeria on
Saturday come into the much placed food
00:24:48
on the group
00:24:48
a log level of points with second place
where I. Ranked below the moral grounds on
00:24:55
the head to head. Tiebreaker team would
football news Blackstone's head coach
00:24:59
Chrissy appeal has defended he's come up
three to look Leigh based players for the
00:25:04
twenty one thousand African qualifier
against Kenya later this month at P.S.
00:25:09
Twenty four months would include as
articles trio of Feliks Alan Amos Frimpong
00:25:15
quite have been touring all doubleton for
the national team clash at the Akron
00:25:19
National Stadium May I believe in.
00:25:32
Being
00:25:32
a player. If anything he
doesn't. Miss Missed. Elsewhere
00:25:45
Liberian national team coach
so much could do has named
00:25:48
a twenty man squad that would travel to
Kinshasa to take on the Democratic Republic
00:25:53
of Congo in the twenty one thousand African
Cup of Nations crucial encounter coach
00:25:57
could do team released on Thursday's made
of dominant overseas players and if you
00:26:02
look at the best players the new star coach
will also be missing former captain and
00:26:07
stop player an in-law for v
00:26:09
e reports have moved his guts out
angst coach could do what he's
00:26:14
a lection who possibly look like
Well as you mention. Him for and
00:26:21
believe that they really have. Players in
the team and then the rest of the players
00:26:26
are for in these players players and
that's it on DAYBREAK Africa's sports I am
00:26:32
Samson. Geria it's back to you James
in Washington for just as they have
00:26:39
a good week and we look forward to report
again on Monday morning and that is it
00:26:42
for this Friday March fifteenth edition of
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00:26:50
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00:26:55
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00:26:59
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00:28:11
Today is Friday March fifteenth this is
veal ways international edition I'm Lori
00:28:16
London in Washington coming up will
passengers get enough information to feel
00:28:20
confident to fly on Boeing's Max eight
jetliners but they don't tell you why they
00:28:25
say it's safe and that doesn't
mean a sure of the flying public
00:28:30
a strong rebuke from his own party on the
president's national emergency border
00:28:34
wall argument today's vote capped
00:28:37
a week of something the American people
haven't seen enough of in the past two
00:28:41
years both parties the United States
Congress standing up to Donald Trump and
00:28:48
also ahead of the music a Britney Spears
will be on Broadway. Well the U.S.
00:28:54
Congress is formally rejected President
Donald Trump's national emergency
00:28:57
declaration to fund wall construction
on the US Mexico border triggering
00:29:02
a near certain presidential veto the
always Michael Bowman reports from Capitol
00:29:07
Hill where the Senate joined the House of
Representatives and disapproving what has
00:29:11
been
00:29:12
a contentious executive action the A's are
fifty nine the nays are forty one. The
00:29:19
joint resolution is passed it's
Congress's first or rejection of
00:29:24
a national emergency declaration
00:29:26
a declaration President Trump made when he
couldn't get the funding he wanted from
00:29:31
lawmakers for a wall on the southern
border with Mexico this is not
00:29:36
a normal vote it's not a
normal day at issue whether
00:29:40
a president can redirect federal funds for
00:29:43
a border wall that Congress has not
approved the president section comes into
00:29:49
direct conflict with Congress's wording
to determine the appropriation
00:29:56
of. At power vested in
Congress by the framers of our
00:30:02
Constitution and undeterred trama
promised action to defend his emergency
00:30:08
declaration you probably have to veto and
it's not going to be overturned the legal
00:30:14
scholars will say it's totally constitutional
it's very important it's really
00:30:19
a border security vote twelve Senate
Republicans voted for the resolution most
00:30:24
stood with the president the president
is operating within existing law and the
00:30:29
questions on our border is all too real
when hundreds of thousands of foreigners
00:30:35
arrive at the southern border and demand
entry that's not migration that's an
00:30:39
emergency and I threat to our sovereignty
Democrats noted that America's border
00:30:44
deficiencies have been debated for years
arguing the situation is far from
00:30:49
a national emergency and that Trump
is exceeding his authority by defying
00:30:54
Congress's will he declared an emergency
because he lost in Congress and wants to
00:30:59
get around he's obsessed with showing
strength and he couldn't just abandon his
00:31:05
pursuit of the border wall so he had to
trample on the constitution although
00:31:10
Congress has not funded trumps border wall
requests earlier this year lawmakers did
00:31:16
provide limited funds to erect new fencing
or. Long small sections of the US Mexico
00:31:21
border and outlay the president deemed
inadequate Congress is unlikely to override
00:31:27
a presidential veto boosting the likelihood
that federal courts will decide the
00:31:32
fate of the national emergency declaration
Michael Bowman News the Capitol it's
00:31:39
been
00:31:39
a week or busy week for the special counsel's
probe into Russia's interference into
00:31:43
the two thousand and sixteen presidential
election and whether the Trump campaign
00:31:47
was in any way involved but there are signs
that the investigation could be coming
00:31:51
to
00:31:52
a close earlier I talked about it Robert
diet's professor of governmental affairs at
00:31:56
George Mason University in the state of
Virginia thank you for being with us so
00:32:01
before we talk about the end game former
Trump campaign chair Paul man afore it was
00:32:06
sentenced to more jail time this week and
then within hours of that sentence he was
00:32:10
indicted on more charges from the New York
attorney general given the timing do you
00:32:15
think that was intentional it's often
challenging to figure out what is priming and
00:32:20
what is coincidence I had the
same thought that it was
00:32:23
a remarkable coincidence that moer
gets a second sons and within
00:32:26
a day the attorney general New York announces
the first Cyrus Vance Jr in politics
00:32:32
kind of
00:32:32
a right kind of runs in the family so he
certainly self-aware of the political
00:32:36
context I think it may have been deliberate
in the sense of let's remind the
00:32:40
American people that the reach of the
president in pardoning is limited to federal
00:32:45
crimes of federal crimes
only and it turns out that
00:32:48
a substantial number
of federal crimes have
00:32:51
a state crime counterpart and if Vance is
prosecution is successful there's nothing
00:32:57
that the president can do in terms of
pardoning and of course we know now that the
00:33:02
president's former advisor Roger Stone
00:33:04
a court date was set for him on Thursday
and the Deputy Special Counsel for Robert
00:33:11
Mueller Andrew Weissman is expected to
leave office soon earlier this month
00:33:15
a senior F.B.I.
00:33:16
Agent overseeing the law enforcement agent.
She's worked for the Miller team took
00:33:21
up a new post so definitely It's
slimming down would that be
00:33:25
a sign that in fact it's getting closer
and closer to being finished I guess it's
00:33:30
fair enough to say it there's
00:33:31
a sign that it's moving toward the end but
of course something moves toward the end
00:33:35
from the day it begins I'm still not
clear about about the timing it is not
00:33:40
surprising that people have
worked very very hard for
00:33:44
a couple of years at this stage you know
if the end is in sight or they feel that
00:33:49
the stuff they've been working on is
00:33:51
a satisfactory place for them to leave
to take on a new job perhaps to take
00:33:57
a month long vacation to get reacquainted
with their families so I don't think that
00:34:01
that that it's
00:34:02
a sponsor yet I'll believe that this is
over when Mr Moeller comes out and says
00:34:07
here's my report also we had the U.S.
00:34:10
House of Representatives vote unanimously
to make the Moller findings public of
00:34:16
course that was blocked by the Republican
controlled Senate but it just goes to
00:34:21
show the interest in the result here which
is kind of interesting despite the fact
00:34:25
that the Congress would not vote to protect
the mall or pro but now they want to
00:34:30
know what's in it how likely is it as
00:34:32
a public will ever really find out what
there is and what it says and what it found
00:34:37
I think the odds of it finding out what's
in everything that's in the report the
00:34:42
odds approach zero it is certainly possible
that investigative reporter is speaking
00:34:48
to anonymous sources will be able to piece
together much of it but these kinds of
00:34:52
inquiries unless somebody is indicted these
types of inquiries are generally kept
00:34:57
secret because it's really unfair to
trash somebody a report or for example
00:35:02
a grand jury report to trash somebody and
then not indict him or her and that's
00:35:09
been
00:35:09
a long tradition in grand juries you either
and dight or you say nothing and I think
00:35:13
that that sort of tradition would applied
to an outside investigation of such as
00:35:18
the one in this. Mo has been conducting
And so I don't think it matters how hill
00:35:22
that's on any of these things Department
of Justice will be governed by the law and
00:35:27
its own rules after so much time public
I know is really hoping at least to get
00:35:34
some sort of
00:35:34
a resolution from all of this do you
think that they will be satisfied or
00:35:38
ultimately because he's farming out so many
of the issues that he's finding in his
00:35:43
scope is limited that many of the answers
just won't be available you know I look I
00:35:48
think in the end we won't know
everything but I think we'll know
00:35:52
a lot and people like you and other
investigative reporters will talk to an
00:35:58
anonymous sources and probably get more
information but at the end of the day I
00:36:04
don't think we will ever sort of know
everything will the question of whether or
00:36:08
not the Trump campaign colluded with
Russia will we know the answer to that
00:36:14
question well again as I've mentioned
in prior programs cool Luzhin is not
00:36:18
a crime if the question is will you think
that look like reamed the Trump camp will
00:36:25
there be information of Trump campaigning
was working with individual Russians I
00:36:32
think the answer to that so that's going
to be yes that's Robert diets professor of
00:36:36
governmental affairs at George Mason
University going seven thirty seven MAX eight
00:36:42
and nine planes will be grounded
for weeks if not longer until
00:36:45
a software upgrade can be tested and
installed as officials in France prepare to
00:36:51
begin analyzing the black boxes from
00:36:53
a jet that crashed in Ethiopia Sunday
investigators will be seeking clues into the
00:36:58
deadly Ethiopian Ethiopian Airlines crash
crashed shortly after takeoff from. The
00:37:04
crash killed one hundred fifty seven
people from thirty five nations it was the
00:37:09
second such calamity involving that model
of Boeing planes since October the United
00:37:15
States was the last of dozens of nations
to ground the planes. Aviation analyst
00:37:20
Scott Hamilton says the US Federal Aviation
Administration trailed other global
00:37:25
aviation agencies in reacting to
the disaster Monday the C.E.O.
00:37:31
Of Ethiopian Airlines said flat out the
pilot had flight control issues at that
00:37:37
point I believe the F.A.A.
00:37:39
Should have acted it would
00:37:40
a bit about the middle of the pack so
the speak at that stage possible links
00:37:45
between the accidents of Rock the aviation
industry scared passengers and left the
00:37:50
world's biggest plane maker
scrambling to prove the safety of
00:37:53
a money spinning model intend to be the
standard for decades Multan says the flying
00:37:59
public needs to hear more detail information
before confident the Boeing MAX
00:38:04
aircraft can be restored united the pilots
Southwest pilots American pilot said
00:38:09
they're playing
00:38:10
a safe but they don't tell you why they
say it's safe and that doesn't really
00:38:14
reassure the fan public Boeing says it has
paused deliveries of its vast to selling
00:38:20
seven thirty seven MAX aircraft built at
its factory near Seattle but continues to
00:38:25
produce its single aisle jets at full
speed while dealing with worldwide fleets
00:38:29
grounding former Texas congressman better
zero zero Rorke is the latest entrant
00:38:35
into the crowded Democratic presidential
field O'Rorke was little known nationally
00:38:40
before he nearly upset Republican Ted Cruz
last November and now hopes to ride that
00:38:45
rapid rise to fame all the way to the White
House in two thousand and twenty the
00:38:49
away national correspondent Jim alone has
more from Washington I'm running to serve
00:38:55
you as president of the United States of
America after months of intensive patient
00:38:59
former Texas congressman right there to
award launched his presidential campaign in
00:39:05
the early voting state of Iowa and with
online video we are truly no more than ever
00:39:11
the last great hope of earth at this moment
of maximum peril and maximum potential
00:39:18
but show. Ourselves and those who will
succeed us in this great country just who we
00:39:23
are and what we can do at forty six homework
brings youthful exuberance and fund
00:39:29
raising prowess to what is already
00:39:31
a jam packed and diverse Democratic
presidential field the former congressman came
00:39:36
to national attention last year after he
nearly defeated Texas Republican Senator
00:39:42
Ted Cruz in
00:39:44
a campaign that inspired Democrats well
beyond the borders of that conservative
00:39:49
state we're not going to find ourselves
by who or what we're against or afraid of
00:39:55
or scared of at the White House President
Donald Trump said he was ready to take on
00:40:01
a Democratic nominee
next year whether it is
00:40:04
a war or someone else that nothing so much
can move ahead I said Is he crazy or is
00:40:10
it just the way he acts so I think it's
going to be tough for somebody but you know
00:40:13
what whoever it is it makes no difference
to me whatsoever Award No joins
00:40:18
a varied group of candidates
that also reflects
00:40:21
a range of policy views from centrists to
ultra liberal says analyst John who Jack
00:40:27
I think we're going to see a lively
debate of ideas and issues in
00:40:32
a way that we didn't see out much
in two thousand and sixteen and in
00:40:35
a way we're certainly not going to see
on the Republican side favors universal
00:40:40
health care coverage images and fighting
climate change he also brings passion to
00:40:46
the race you'll have to contend with
established candidates who do as well like
00:40:51
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren
Clinton government works great for those
00:40:58
with money and power and not for
the rest of the people it is
00:41:04
corruption plain and simple and we need
to call it out former Vice President Joe
00:41:10
Biden strongly hinted this week that he
will join the race soon and he could
00:41:15
quickly become the front runner but some
Democrats may be looking for. A political
00:41:20
outsider to take on trumps next year
says Will Marshall looking to Washington
00:41:26
experience in their present really they're
looking for people going to challenge
00:41:31
a political culture the political
class I think is dysfunctional
00:41:36
a worker who makes several stops on
his Iowa tour and then will hold
00:41:40
a major campaign kickoff in his hometown
of El Paso Texas on March third him alone
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00:42:30
Children whose families fled conflict in
the Democratic Republic of Congo now face
00:42:34
a new fight for survival
UNICEF estimates more than
00:42:38
a quarter million of them
face malnutrition the always
00:42:41
a rush hour Saudi reports that
00:42:43
a civilians return to their homes and
over overburdened local health care that
00:42:49
number is likely to Ross Susan and her
daughter Rosie that fled Congo's Kasai
00:42:54
region to find shelter and keep wheat.
Daughters Ballmer Ishta and I have no money
00:43:00
to feed her you know like thousands of
other civilians who fled conflict in the
00:43:04
P.R.C.
00:43:05
Susan struggled to find food you know she
start to eat sad because she was so hungry
00:43:10
now a belly is swollen I can't buy daughter
medication and no way of treating her
00:43:15
a cut nothing rose at died after the filming
of this video. The ongoing conflict
00:43:22
bred insecurity forcing thousands of families
to flee into the bush but there they
00:43:27
faced food shortages that forced them to
return home in search of lifesaving care
00:43:31
and. We left the bush because of
hunger and suffering when we found
00:43:36
a village to rest and I was told about
this hospital where children could receive
00:43:39
medical care and food for free online
services at this clinic could be the
00:43:43
difference between life and death. And you
know they heard about the care offered
00:43:48
at this hospital this mother came immediately
with her child and after clinical
00:43:53
examinations the child was declared
malnourished the fighting in case I was one of
00:43:58
a series of deadly flare ups following
the former president's refusal to leave
00:44:02
power in twenty sixteen UNICEF and its
partners have treated about two hundred
00:44:06
thousand severely malnourished
children in the D. Or C.
00:44:09
Over the past two years but estimate there
are another two hundred sixty thousand
00:44:14
in need
00:44:15
a rush. And you're listening
to international edition
00:44:23
on V.O.A. . Some two hundred
thousand people in Malawi
00:44:28
a been displaced by floods that have
affected half of the country's twenty eight
00:44:32
districts as of Wednesday the government
had reported at least fifty six deaths and
00:44:37
over five hundred injuries meteorologists
have warned that more rain is on the way
00:44:42
missing are reports from one of the district
most affected by the floods people at
00:44:48
this evacuation account by
00:44:49
a monk to read it if I was in the Malawians
pool of people forced from their homes
00:44:54
by friends that have damaged the roads
washed away bridges and killed love story or
00:45:00
way that expires say this was
00:45:02
a result of the trip because.
Of that to buoy in the from
00:45:05
a neighboring Mozambique victims or
00:45:08
a council they would kill
somebody for meaning but made him
00:45:12
a good mate not while we were fast asleep
and I was awakened by sound of some
00:45:15
unfolding down of the starter I me
Giulio waked up as and found that it was
00:45:19
a wall of our house we found refuge achieves
house until the following morning when
00:45:23
we were told to stay at this camp and there
already more easy House slowed almost
00:45:29
everything he had but he managed to escape
easy to children in need you know so I
00:45:35
knew. We are now expecting well wishes to
provide us with some food some blankets
00:45:42
and also
00:45:42
a range of place in the upper land where
we can resettle. Praised into Peter. Has
00:45:49
a degree had
00:45:49
a foot in Africa the district's disaster
area is at the maid at edge into appeal
00:45:55
for help but the relief ideas that have
started to show you are being helped by the
00:46:00
by odes witchery many probably
would want to think. Of
00:46:06
a department which doesn't of disaster
management affairs. Minister of Homeland
00:46:11
Security to try to help us with the
helicopter so that it should be utterly fair
00:46:16
lifting some of the roof items to become
so that you cannot be accessed by road
00:46:21
maybe while on into if you wake is how busy
ploy in accounts. Traditions I got if I
00:46:26
was people one practices that
helped prevent the outbreaks of
00:46:31
a fictious disease well song. Might or
not oh mercy why no five children not
00:46:38
a good mind
00:46:38
a. Minimal one yeah yeah an infant from
this is how many don't seem enough
00:46:45
lads in the south than in Malawi for years
I killed about two hundred seventy six
00:46:50
people and to displace to two hundred
if they did thousand AD as governmental
00:46:54
authorities say they plan to study relocating
people from flooded porn is to higher
00:47:00
ground the thinking or Doctorow
to do away with. About.
00:47:07
This idiocy does US doesn't like the one
we experienced benighted in this what you
00:47:12
have expressed in marching twenty nineteen
how evil folk warned over another week
00:47:18
of the studio starting from much what.
I did not smile when that rains
00:47:25
how likely it will. See now
for you when you sang Jan And
00:47:32
you're listening to
international edition on V.O.A.
00:47:35
. To twenty nineteen V.O.A.
00:47:40
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00:48:41
National dish and continues by twenty fifty
Australians will no longer enjoy winter
00:48:47
as they know it today in fact winter as
they know it will be nonexistent according
00:48:52
to the results of
00:48:53
a project involving academics and
colleagues from the Australian National
00:48:57
University School of Art and
Design and from the A.N.U.
00:49:00
Climate Change Institute they've developed
an interactive tool to show the impacts
00:49:04
of climate change in
00:49:05
a way that people can engage with and better
understand I talked about it with two
00:49:09
of the professors who worked on this Dr
Geoff Hinchcliffe and Dr Mitchell Whitelaw
00:49:16
the results of climate changes like
this are are very frightening. It is
00:49:21
a I mean it's scary I guess until the
very much strategy that we're using to
00:49:25
communicate is China by when we say no
winter it's not like we're going to remove
00:49:30
you know the winter months of
00:49:31
a year the month will still be here but
the average daily maximum temperature at
00:49:35
that time will be warmer than winters we
have had traditionally and there actually
00:49:40
one be
00:49:40
a period the year which has daily maximum
temperature is that you know that match
00:49:45
historical winter but we mainly say no
winter How will you distinguish your season
00:49:50
and the savings will roll through in the
normal way and of course the week to
00:49:54
period will be colder than the some
00:49:55
a period that we have here
it won't be anything like
00:49:58
a cold of that was in terms of the daily
chances that will lead to lose because
00:50:03
anything can change through the length I
understand that some are calling it new
00:50:08
summer Jessie and and yeah that's what
happened the other end of the year if in the
00:50:14
wind period is mild almost really something
closer to what we currently experience
00:50:20
in spring and also that's happening that
we typically either engage in out from
00:50:25
among we're experiencing
00:50:27
a new Selma something that's really
contracted summer to come through either by
00:50:31
a really intense period and interestingly
in a Strat we need a twenty I'd
00:50:36
a some A because we have some I you know
I know the Christmas period it really
00:50:40
brings them in something like that model
that we saw record breaking all Everest
00:50:45
right on this die hard screening of die it
was really shocking accounts and that's
00:50:50
only thirty years the way that you're
talking about is happening well to some
00:50:53
extent already getting
00:50:55
a preview of it you know what happened in
the summer that just come by it's really
00:50:59
not
00:50:59
a million miles away from what we're showing
in this market and some of them to stop
00:51:04
pretty things to do but it's still going
on where visually by doing enjoying from
00:51:09
very by the guy across months and suddenly
in the midst of summer it was great
00:51:16
for them that he was. A across the months
to astronomy. What will that mean for the
00:51:22
ecology for this Barrier Reef and all of
these other humans that are so prized
00:51:29
there is
00:51:30
a chilling here great question and you
know I guess when designing an ecologist
00:51:36
sort of funded their role in this project
was really to visualize and find ways to
00:51:41
communicate these projections so that we
don't answer the questions we've months
00:51:46
with already except But all of the sons
are shouting pretty loudly at the impact
00:51:51
you know that there is they're going to be
really serious unless we do something in
00:51:55
a study and availability to to really reduce
out how the nation was and take action
00:51:59
really quickly tell me
00:52:00
a little bit about how you came up with
these findings you have an actual climate
00:52:05
tool. Fortunately we were able to call
on some dogs being produced by the
00:52:12
Queensland Government to quantify that I
produced really fine grain the prime right
00:52:18
Dr Hall looking at twenty people in modeling
and initially wanted produce that it
00:52:24
was to help grow it isn't people walking
away and to prepare for all the impacts of
00:52:29
climate change you know the whole adaptation.
Necessarily have to stalk me fuck the
00:52:35
climate has got to be changing subjects
that produces the to help prepare them for
00:52:39
those changes. Have any kind of
need to find that out. So we
00:52:46
were able to sort of get the whole doc to
represent or found the locations across
00:52:52
the strata and do
00:52:53
a representation for the holidays and
also allows people to really look at the
00:52:59
effects of climate change so that the
aspect of the work we think it's really
00:53:04
important that we kind of show people what
I mean in their world if people want to
00:53:09
look at this and see how it actually works
what can they do beside it currently
00:53:14
live and add that my climate I see
00:53:17
a doc told me to. All
right we thank you for
00:53:22
a hall that information and interesting
commentary Dr Jeff pension and Dr
00:53:28
Mitchell white law professors at the
Australian National University.
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A Britney Spears themed musical
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a book club made up of fairy tale princesses
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of Pop's biggest hits debuts in Chicago
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a New York and Broadway
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And you've been listening to international
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show but you can find
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News dot com We thank you for joining us
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and our engineer Keith Holmes I'm
Laurie London and Washington have
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a great day. It's
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Eleven. Eleven.
00:57:10
I've.
00:57:36
This is the way news I'm Tommy make me
authorities New Zealand are not certain how
00:57:41
many people might be involved in attacks
against Muslim worshippers and are warning
00:57:45
residents to avoid going to mosque anywhere
in the country and maybe correspondent
00:57:50
Jackie Quinn reports New Zealand's prime
minister just into our durned says there
00:57:54
was carnage at two mosques in Christ Church
this is one of New Zealand's Doc asked
00:58:00
day she says many of the victims appear
to be migrants seeking safety in the
00:58:05
country they are us the person who has
picture I did this violence against us is
00:58:12
not this witness at one of the mosques
that was attacked says there was blood
00:58:17
everywhere fighting the board over
00:58:18
a blaze and it's gotten out of business
witnesses say they heard dozens of shots
00:58:23
and then people screaming as they ran out
in terror residents were helping victims
00:58:27
in the street as they waited for emergency
responders to arrive I'm Jackie Quinn
00:58:33
the U.S. Senate voted to reject U.S.
00:58:35
President Donald Trump's national
emergency declaration to fund border wall
00:58:40
construction as a piece Saager Magali
reports twelve Senate Republicans ignored
00:58:46
a presidential veto threat and joined
00:58:48
a unified Democratic Caucus to pass the
disapproval measure and the Republican led
00:58:53
chamber there were references to high school
civics class and Schoolhouse Rock for
00:58:59
me this is
00:59:00
a constitutional question Congress not
the president has the sole Thora to
00:59:04
determine how to spend taxpayer money
this check on the executive is
00:59:08
a source of our freedom Mitt Romney Rob
Portman and Lamar Alexander of all the
00:59:13
dozen Republicans voting to block the
president's move the legal scholars will say
00:59:17
it's totally constitutional he's promising
00:59:20
a veto and it's nearly certain there
will not be enough votes for an override
00:59:25
solder at the White House signed more
at a news dot com This is V.O.A.
00:59:31
News. Hundreds of people
surrendered to U.S.
00:59:35
Backed forces for the second day in
00:59:37
a row as the last remnants of the Islamic
state group fought to hold in the Syrian
00:59:42
village of booze officials say that Thirteen
hundred people surrendered to serous
00:59:47
Syria democratic forces bringing the total
number of people to leave boggles since
00:59:52
the S.D.F.
00:59:53
Resumed its final assault to more than
four thousand acting defense secretary
00:59:58
Patrick Shanahan told
01:00:00
a US Senate Armed Services Committee that
the fight is almost over seventy nine
01:00:04
member defeat ISIS coalition has liberated
virtually all of the territory ISIS once
01:00:10
held as the U.S.
01:00:11
Drawdown continues we will maintain
01:00:13
a presence to prevent ISIS resurgence
fighting on the outskirts of the goons has
01:00:18
been intense with.
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